Angularjs Fundamentals and Implementations with MVC Frameworks

Angularjs Fundamentals and Implementations with MVC Frameworks

Angular JS is becoming the preferred Java Script Framework for building high performance web applications, especially building JavaScript Single Page Applications. The features and the continuous updates happening in AngularJS world is helping developers spend more time delivering features to the users rather than developing the framework architecture.

The built-in features like Services, Dependency Injection, Directives etc. makes AngularJS more comfortable for the developer community building a Rich Internet web application especially SPA. In addition, AngularJS lays the path of further web application development offering native DOM templates, web components and 2 way data binding.

The community support for AngularJS is also growing massively. If you look at the trends in master commits in GITHub, Issue closures, forks etc. comparing to other frameworks like Backbone and Ember, AngularJS shows a clear upward trend. It is also backed by Google, developing some important products on top of it.

AngularJS thus leads the pack of other JS frameworks both in terms of features and community support offering tools to the web developers to develop applications that will result in improved productivity, increased testability, increased maintainability, improved performance and debugging.

At OptiSol, AngularJS is the preferred JS framework developing web applications across different technology platforms - .NET, JAVA, PHP and Ruby on Rail. Stay tuned in for further updates on How Angular JS works with various other MVC web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC, Yii, CAKEPHP and Spring IoC. 

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Yii 2.0 Beta Benefits and Feature Video

Yii Framework 2.0 Benefits and Features

Yii 2.0 Beta

Yii 2.0 Beta is a complete rewrite of Yii1.1, the current stable version. The current version of Yii framework was heavily influenced by Ruby on Rails. It is a clean adaptation of the great features of RoR to the PHP fraternity. Yii framework 2.0 is a much comprehensive web development framework, aimed to take the framework to the next orbit. The team has clearly developed Yii 2.0 keeping Yii’s philosophy of adapting the best practices and features of other web frameworks. Some of the interesting features of what Yii 2.0, compared to Yii 1.1 is discussed in the sections below.

Namespace: The foremost and very important change in Yii 2.0 is the use of Namespaces. All the core classes are now namespaced. The class names do not use the “C” prefix. The use of Namespace improves the way Yii codes are written avoiding or limiting ambiguity in class names, evading in-identifier grouping for hierarchy and naming conflicts. The Yii class loader lets the developers use any core class of Yii without explicitly including that class file.

Component and Object The component class CComponent in Yii 1.1 is now broken into two classes – Object Class and Component Class. The basic data structures are provided in Object Class, configuration and the property feature. Component Class extends from the Object class adding events and behaviors. These way developers can now use Objects for classes that represent basic data structures while component is used for application components implementing higher logic with events and behaviors.

Object Configuration is simplified, introducing a uniform way of configuring objects. Any descendant class of Object should declare its constructor.

Events definition no longer needs an on- method. The developer is free to use any event names and attach a handler to the event. The handlers can also be attached with parameters to be used at a later stage, enabling the use of global events.

Path Alias is extended to both file/directory paths and URLs. It is also closely related with Namespaces.

View Yii 2.0 introduces a View class to represent the view part of the MVC pattern. It can be configured globally through the "view" application component. It is also accessible in any view file via $this. This is one of the biggest changes compared to 1.1: $this in a view file no longer refers to the controller or widget object. It refers to the view object that is used to render the view file. To access the controller or the widget object, you have to use $this->context now.

For partial views, the View class now includes a render () function. This creates another significant change in the usage of views compared to 1.1: $this->render (...)does not output the processed content; you must echo it yourself.

For more information about the yii 2.0 beta version release, please visit: http://www.optisolbusiness.com/insight/yii-2-0-benefits-and-features

OptiSol Business Solutions Overview

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Art of Startup Business Consulting

No ideas are small, but equally it is unfortunate that many a times these ideas are stuck with its initial inertia on finding its trigger point. It’s about where to start, how to start, when to start, who to start and many more questions. It involves writing a business plan to evolve revenue models, forecasting an operations blue print and identifying the break even points and ROIs’. And this list goes endless. This is more prominent with internet based start up ideas that may need a good mix of online and offline strategies.

However the solution lays in the fact that one need to look at these issues from within and they will be surprised to admit the fact that many of these challenges they perceive to have need not to be tackled by them. As owners of ideas that have a fair share of their heart, their role is to keep dreaming high and rely on partners with necessary execution expertise, who can come along with them in realizing these ideas. It necessitates a need for these partners to possess broader breadth in business analysis, and deeper IT expertise. It is about an ability to combine unconventional methods, business wisdom and proven standards & methods to propose an evolutionary solution. The outcome will be a superior framework to evolve programs for platform (technology), data and marketing. We call it Start up Business Consulting Framework!

At a platform level, it is about associating the expected features list of the beta launch on a suitable technology stack that goes in line with the time to market and TCO. At an execution level, it necessitates deeper business analysis expertise that can transform ideas into actionable programs. It is about providing a peer level champion from these partner organization who typically engages very closely with the client team. This forms a foundation phase, as high level functional description of ideas gets transformed into a system level use cases that shall be implemented. This is an excellent way to start the program since this gives visibility on feature sets that shall be available as part of the beta launch.. However one needs to realize that this is just the beginning and they need to have good blue print of operations roadmap post this beta launch. The key here is to have a comprehensive online marketing program and data management program.

As a business consultant, it is imperative that the consulting partner takes a significant role in both these dimensions of marketing and data management. On the marketing side, it is about how an online business enterprise fares though the following life cycle,

• Building the base channel – membership / subscription models, building a product merchandize , value added service delivery models, promotions etc
• Building revenue models / channels – Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and web analytics
• Building a framework to Know Your Customer (KYC) – Customer loyalty management, CRM management, & Campaigns Management

Finally one cannot set aside the need to have a good program for data management as data is the king always! For an online business model to stand tall amidst peer competition, it is its ability to maintain the most recent and real time data. Consider a case of an online portal that does the price comparison for a product from different merchants. The result view of price for a product across different merchants need to be real time since there are possibilities that some merchants may provide discounts / promotion at that point of time and the online portal still need to capture those. This will be the essence of the robustness about the solution. It may happen via an online channel where the merchants can upload their data or by having comrades on the field, which does the work of collecting these data and uploading it into the application. Hence irrespective of the fact that the product data can come from both online and offline channels, it is a must that a comprehensive quality management program exists to make sure the data are accurate and managed in real time.

At one level above the above said transactions, data program also need to have an ability to gain insights on these real time data. It can be customer data, transaction data, web traffic data etc that needs to be stratified to identify and isolate cohesive data groups. This will involve interesting and multi dimensional data analysis that will result in enterprise level metrics. Hence it is definitely an icing in the cake if the consulting partner brings in the necessary process management skills to define a back office framework for these enterprises. When you are a start up, you may think you can manage it yourself along with your other founding members but equally the irony is that you wish you grow at a rate that cannot be managed by you and your team. Remember, as your enterprises grow, your data grows and so is your business process overheads. So better lay the platform ahead so you don’t get into a data trap.

At OptiSol we understand these dynamics and bring in expertise in Technology outsourcing, Business Functions Outsourcing and Online Marketing Management. We have created many success stories as a technology partner to internet startups. This includes building prototypes that has facilitated our clients to generate investments and it has been a growth story since then.

Our Business Consulting Services are

• Start up Consulting
• eBusiness Channel Management
• Business Process Outsourcing Management Services

For more details please visit us at www.optisolbusiness.com